[ecoop-info] CFP: ICSE Second Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge - Architecture, rationale, and Design Intent (SHARK/ADI'2007)

[Paris Avgeriou]

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ICSE Workshop Call For Papers:
Second Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge - 
Architecture, rationale, and Design Intent (SHARK/ADI'2007)
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~paris/SHARK-ADI2007

In conjunction with the 29th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE 
2007) http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/icse07
May 20-26, 2007, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Workshop theme and goals
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Software architecture plays an increasingly important role
to manage the complex interactions and dependencies between the 
stakeholders and to provide a central artifact that can be used as a 
reference by them. It also supports early analysis of the system, 
especially with respect to quality attributes and successful evolution 
of the system. Existing approaches on software architecting typically 
focus on components and connectors and fail to document the design 
decisions that resulted in the architecture as well as the 
organizational, process and business rationale underlying the design 
decisions. This results in high maintenance cost, high degrees of design 
erosion and lack of information and documentation of relevant 
architectural knowledge. This workshop focuses on current approaches, 
tackling this problem: methods, languages, notations, tools to extract, 
represent, share, use and re-use architectural knowledge.
Architectural Knowledge (AK) is defined as the integrated representation 
of the software architecture of a software-intensive system (or a family 
of systems), the architectural design decisions and their rationale, and 
the influences of the external context/environment.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners 
(especially architects) that are interested in sharing and reusing 
architectural knowledge. Attendance will be limited to a maximum of 40 
participants.

Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:
- Notations and languages to model or visualize architectural knowledge
- Ontologies, domain models and meta-models for architectural knowledge
- Tools to extract, visualize, share or use architectural knowledge
- Evolution of architectural knowledge
- Technical, social, and management factors in communicating 
architectural knowledge
- Architectural knowledge as decision support for both new and evolving 
designs
- Traceability between requirements, architectural design decisions and 
architectural solutions (e.g. patterns, tactics, reference architectures)
- Reconstructing architectural knowledge and rationale from legacy systems
- Using architectural knowledge to coordinate system architecture in a 
global context
- Empirical studies of the use and reuse of architectural knowledge and 
design rationale
- Impact of intent and rationale for design evaluation, change analysis, 
component reuse, and project communication
- Using intent and rationale to manage evolution
- Documenting dependencies between design decisions and projecting 
impact of change
- Design and design intent recovery and reverse engineering
- Decision support and capture tools
- Design of empirical studies for measuring the impact of intent and 
rationale in design and maintenance activities

Workshop Organizers:
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Paris Avgeriou
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
paris at cs.rug.nl
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~paris/

Paul S. Grisham
University of Texas at Austin
grisham at ece.utexas.edu
http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~grisham

Philippe Kruchten
University of British Columbia, Canada
pbk at ece.ubc.ca
http://philippe.kruchten.com

Patricia Lago
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
patricia at cs.vu.nl
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~patricia

Dewayne E. Perry
University of Texas at Austin
perry at ece.utexas.edu
http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~perry

Program committee
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Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Jan Bosch, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Janet Burge, Miami University, USA
Jeff Conklin, CogNexus Institute
Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Torgeir Dingsoyr, Sintef, Trondheim, Norway
Muhammad Ali Babar, National ICT Australia
Mike Evangelist, The University of Texas at Austin
Paul S. Grisham, The University of Texas at Austin
Jim Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon University
Ralph Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Axel van Lamsweerde, Universite Catholique de Louvain
Nenad Medvidovic, University of Southern California
Dewayne E. Perry, The University of Texas at Austin
Antony Tang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Jeff Tyree, CapitalOne, Canada
Hans van Vliet, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Uwe Zdun, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Guidelines for Submission
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Papers in three distinct categories are solicited: future trend papers, 
describing ongoing research, new results, and future trends (maximum 4 
pages); research papers describing innovative and significant original 
research in the field (maximum 7 pages); industrial papers describing 
industrial experience, case studies, challenges, problems and solutions 
(maximum 7 pages). A special kind of industrial paper submission is an 
example of a document that shares some kind of architectural knowledge, 
together with an evaluation of it or a description of the techniques 
that it uses.

Please email your submission to sharkadi at cs.vu.nl. Submissions should be 
original and unpublished work. Each submitted paper will undergo a 
rigorous review process by three members of the Program Committee. All 
types of papers must conform to the ICSE2007 submission format and 
guidelines. All accepted papers will appear in the IEEE Digital Library.

All submissions must be received by January 23rd, 2007.

Special issue
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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit their papers to the
Section on 'Software Architecture' of the Journal of Systems and 
Software http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jss.


Important dates
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23 January - paper submission
20 February - notification of acceptance
2 March - camera-ready